The US head of the pro-Palestinian group The Free Gaza Movement unleashed a wave
of criticism over the last several days because of a Twitter post asserting that
Zionists ran concentration camps and murdered Jews.

Greta Berlin, the
American co-founder of the group Free Gaza, tweeted on September 30 “Zionists
operated the concentration camps and helped murder millions of innocent
Jews.”

Berlin’s tweet blaming Zionists for the Holocaust caught the eye
of Avi Mayer, who oversees social media for the Jewish Agency for Israel. Mayer
was the first to draw attention to Berlin on his Twitter feed, writing “the
folks behind the #Gaza flotilla – reveal themselves to be the lowest anti-
Semites.” Mayer documented the chronology of Berlin’s attacks on Jews and
Israel, as well as the Holocaust revisionism of the Free Gaza
group.

Mayer wrote in a blog post, “The Free Gaza Movement is the key
actor behind the successive flotillas that have sought to violate the maritime
closure around Gaza in support of Hamas. It is chaired by Huwaida Arraf, who
also heads the International Solidarity Movement (and has endorsed the use of
violence against Israel), and its Board of Advisers includes such luminaries as
Naomi Klein, Peter Hansen, and Jenny Tonge.”

He continued, “It has been
endorsed by a range of organizations and individuals, including Desmond Tutu,
Jewish Voice for Peace, Code Pink, the Palestine Red Crescent Society, the
Rachel Corrie Foundation, George Galloway and Natorei Karta
International.”

Prof. Gerald Steinberg, the head of the Jerusalem-based
NGO Monitor, said “The NGO activists in the so-called ‘Free Gaza’ campaign have
always reflected obsessive, irrational and immoral characteristics, and the
revelation of links to crude anti-Semitism provides additional evidence,” in an
email to The Jerusalem Post.

“The members of organizations like the ISM
[International Solidarity Movement] and others behind Free Gaza, that lead the
political war to demonize Israel and give support to terror groups, have been
unmasked in an entirely unambiguous manner,” he said. “Their facade of human
rights and humanitarian aid, which was never supported by had any tangible
evidence, has completely disintegrated.”

According to an article in
Canada’s National Post, Berlin said the offending tweet was meant for her
private Facebook account and was mistakenly sent from the Free Gaza Twitter
account. The Canadian daily reported that a tweet from Free Gaza quoted her as
saying, “I shared it without watching it. I am sorry that I just sent it forward
without looking at it. It won’t happen again.”

Berlin linked her tweet to
a video ostensibly from conspiracy theorist Eustace Mullins, who propagates the
views that Jews are responsible for the Holocaust and are admirers of
Hitler.

Mayer wrote that “This video, endorsed and promoted by
@FreeGazaOrg, claims Jews want to erect a statue of Hitler in Israel to thank
him” and that the person speaking in the video “appears to be the late
anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist Eustace Mullins.”

Berlin and her
organization, the Free Gaza Movement, are linked to radical Islamist
organizations and seek, according to critics, to delegitimize Israel’s right to
exist.

Berlin is currently on a book tour in Canada for co-writing
Freedom Sailors: The Maiden Voyage of the Free Gaza movement and how we
succeeded in spite of ourselves.

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